Interesting about Joomla! CMS

As far as I have understood from comments on this site (and even from a separate topic on forum.joomla.org), there is a big interest to the version of a PDA-mambot for Mambo CMS. The matter is that the version for Joomla cannot work in Mambo as the latter does not trigger “OnStart” event. In order to PDA-mambot start working, it is necessary to make changes to a index.php file and to modify slightly a PDA-mambot since in Mambo and Joomla the name of a new template is stored in different variables.
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If you create a site for mobile devices, you need to solve the problem: how to distinguish the user, who has visited a site from a computer, from the user, who has visited a site from the mobile device? There are some scripts, which allow solving this problem:

• PHP to detect mobile phones
• Lightweight device-detection in PHP
• Here is how to detect a mobile device using php

But mobile devices strongly differ by the opportunities. Some devices support only WML, some—mobile XHTML, some (iMode)—cHTML. Moreover, there are some PDAs which fine displays usual HTML. Here the situation is more complex, and exists not so many scripts allowing to distinguish devices on these four groups.
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It appears today this blog is half a year. So, I congratulate myself and all readers on the half-anniversary.

What have I made for half a year?

• It is made and published a lot of useful (PDA-mambot, Popular-of-late, CAPTCHA, WeblogPing, etc.).
• The blog has about 40 permanent rss-readers (according to Feedburner).
• Google PR of the blog has gone up to 6 (quite good result for 6 months).
• The blog has hit in Google TOP10 by such keywords as joomla mobile, joomla pda, pda mambot, pda testing, pda cms, joomla captcha, cms captcha, joomla ping, auto ping, optimize joomla queries, and also Denis Ryabov, interesting typography, unable to unarchive, and own strength .

In general, I value this as successful enough start.

However, the blog continues the life. First of all, it is owing to you, the attentive and thoughtful Reader! In fact, that can be better for the author, than a feedback, which acts to him in the form of grateful letters and comments. I will continue to please you further with useful interesting posts and extensions. And, taking an opportunity, I wish to ask you to leave in comments, along with congratulations, also the wishes: What subjects interest you most of all? About what you would want, that I wrote in the future?

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This project and information is deprecated. Please visit Mobile Joomla! project at mobilejoomla.com for the latest and best way of mobilize Joomla! web sites. Thank you very much for your support.

Today I release promised “Google AdSense Mobile” module from “Mobile Joomla” package. To start earn money from the mobile version of a site, it is enough to set up and publish this module in one of pda-template positions. In parameters it is necessary to specify at least your Google AdSense client ID (like pub-0123456789012345). On the whole it is possible to change following parameters of advertising: Read the rest of this entry »

This project and information is deprecated. Please visit Mobile Joomla! project at mobilejoomla.com for the latest and best way of mobilize Joomla! web sites. Thank you very much for your support.

I suggest to discuss prospects of further development of PDA-mambot/plugin.

I have following ideas:

1. Definition of browser type with the aid of WURFL library (it will be released in forthcoming version 2.2).
2. Support of three separate templates for wap, i-mode and wap2/xhtml mobile browsers.
3. Redirect to a corresponding subdomain for mobile devices.
4. Opportunity in template parameters to specify a logo and a slogan of a site.
5. Opportunity to view the mobile version of a site through a virtual directory (i.e. through http://site.com/pda/; it is useful if creation of a subdomain is impossible for any reason).
6. For Joomla!1.0 - additional postprocessing of generated pages. Probably, to add caching results of postprocessing.
7. For Joomla!1.5 - to include in a template(s) the changed layout of standard components and modules (that basically is impossible in Joomla!1.0).
8. A script for check of updates which can be started on the schedule (through cron, for example).
9. Also it would be quite good to reduce in passing big images that they don’t exceed the size of the mobile screen. But I do not know yet how to make it.

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1. Introduction

The quantity of mobile devices in the world greatly outnumber quantity of desktops in houses and offices, therefore creation of sites convenient for users of mobile devices is not a rarity. And whether your Joomla-site is designed for viewing by means of mobile devices? If no, it is easy to correct it with the pda-mambot.

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This project and information is deprecated. Please visit Mobile Joomla! project at mobilejoomla.com for the latest and best way of mobilize Joomla! web sites. Thank you very much for your support.

In spite of the fact that the final version of Joomla! 1.5 has not released yet, many already now try to create sites on its basis. Therefore, I often asked in comments to posts and by e-mail for release the version of a PDA-plugin for Joomla! 1.5.

So, the first version of a pda-plugin for Joomla! 1.5 is released. The set of functions is practically identical to functions of a pda-mambot 2.1.2 (but not all functions have passed a full set of tests), but they now are broken into two parts: the part of functions is tuned in options of a pda-plugin, and the part is tuned in options of a pda-template.
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